Antony Blinken: “Plots like that is what Secretary Blinken was warning about today.”

The response we got was unfortunately not the yes that we were looking for. A yes that virtually the entire world has given.

That statement is incorrect.

We see, I think this committee sees, corruption as being one of the most poisonous things that undermines democracies.

We are working to do that. Obviously, in the countries that have been on the receiving end of coups, there are some limits that we have to abide by.